About our data
The directory is built from open and licensed data only. We never copy another site's descriptions or user reviews, and every page lists the sources behind its facts in a line at the bottom. Ratings shown on a fragrance are source aggregates on a 0 to 10 scale, with the number of ratings.
Correction policy
If something is wrong, it should be fixable by the people who know. On every fragrance page, Suggest a correction lets you propose a new year, concentration, gender, perfumers, notes, name, brand or photo. You sign it with your account, so everyone can see who suggested it, and it goes to a moderator.
An accepted correction overrides the source value, shows "edited by" with your name next to it, and is never overwritten when we refresh the data from our sources. A rejected one is simply closed, with a reason when the moderator gives one. Pages show how many corrections are waiting.
Photos you upload when you list an item are yours. When a fragrance has no photo, your listing photo is offered to the moderators as the directory photo, with your name as the credit. Fragrances that are not in the directory yet can be added from the listing form; they stay private to you until a moderator accepts them.
Names and facts are not claimed as ours. Where a source has an unclear license, we say so below and we keep it separate so it can be replaced.
Sources and licenses
Where the directory data comes from
The DeMarkets fragrance directory is built only from open or openly licensed sources. We import facts (names, houses, years, perfumers, notes, accords, aggregate ratings) and openly licensed photos and brand summaries. We never copy another site's descriptions or reviews, and we do not scrape fragrance sites that forbid it. Every fragrance page shows which sources contributed to it. Our own descriptions are generated from these facts and are marked as ours.
Sources we use
| Source | License | What we use | Attribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parfumo community data, via the TidyTuesday open data project (2024-12-10 dataset) | Not stated by the publisher | Names, houses, years, perfumers, notes, accords, rating averages and counts | "Parfumo community via TidyTuesday". These rows are marked with an unclear license in our database and can be removed or replaced as a block. |
| Scento Perfume Database, https://www.scento.com/perfume-database | CC BY 4.0 | Names, houses, years, perfumers, notes, families; house country and founding year | "Perfume data: Scento (CC BY 4.0)" |
| Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org | CC0 | Launch years, perfumers, brand facts, links to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons | Credited as a courtesy: "Wikidata (CC0)" |
| Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Short brand summaries, shown with a link to the article | "From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0", with the article link. Any reuse of those summaries must stay CC BY-SA. |
| Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org | Per file (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or public domain only) | Bottle photographs | Photographer, license and a link to the file page, shown next to each photo |
| Open Beauty Facts, https://world.openbeautyfacts.org | Database ODbL 1.0, images CC BY-SA 3.0 | Product photos and barcodes | "Contains information from Open Beauty Facts (ODbL). Photos: Open Beauty Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0." |
| Unsplash | Unsplash License | One photo of Bleu de Chanel | "Photo: Unsplash" |
| Osmo Scent Taxonomy, https://github.com/osmoai/taxonomy | ODbL 1.0 | The scent vocabulary we use to sort notes and accords into our eight scent families | "Scent taxonomy: Osmo (ODbL)". Our family table derived from it stays share-alike. |
| DeMarkets editors and members | Ours | Seed entries, corrections, and photos uploaded by sellers | "DeMarkets editors" or the member name |
Sources we looked at and do not use
- Datasets derived from Fragrantica, Basenotes or Parfumo that carry no license, a non-commercial license, or no provenance. We do not scrape those sites.
- Openverse: its robots rules exclude automated image search.
- The IFRA Transparency List: no open bulk data in a usable form yet.
Corrections
Facts in the directory come from the sources above and can be wrong or out of date. Signed corrections are live on every fragrance page: open "Suggest a correction", change the field, and sign it with your DeMarkets account. A moderator reviews each one. Accepted corrections override source values and show who made them. Some concentrations and genders are read from the fragrance's own name (an "Eau de Toilette" or "pour Homme" in the name); a source or an accepted correction always wins over those.
Automated access
Our import scripts identify themselves as DeMarkets-directory-bot, respect robots.txt, and fetch at most one request per second from any site.